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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Congratulations
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Admiral Jota (jota@laraby.tiac.net) wrote:
> Roger Carbol <rog@col.ca> writes:
> >Mark J Musante wrote:
> >> Graham Nelson (graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> >> > She's not quite a virtuoso, though -- I do occasionally receive
> >> > patches.
> >> And, annoyed at having to do that, she says "Darn it!"
> >Oh, stop needling the poor lady.

> Yeah, what's the point? And what does it have to do with this thread? 

Well, that settles the question of whether there can be moral dilemmas in 
IF. I am totally unable to decide whether Graham should be slowly 
dismembered for starting this nonsense and the rest of you burnt at the 
stake for continuing it, or vice versa.

(On the other hand, it comes to the same thing in the end, so maybe I'm 
just knit-picking.)

--Z

(Aren't you sorry you started this? If only you had known. Well, you 
know what they say about a stitch in time.)

(So tell me, is Miss Horn's adventure compiler written in Purl?)

(I'll shut up now.)

-- 

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
